ACC considering reducing conference schedule to help boost the league's NCAA Tournament profile

[HooperScooper]

Too funny. Now that the conference stinks. I laugh in their faces.

The ACC is strongly considering reducing its conference schedule so teams can schedule more marquee nonconference games and improve the league's chances of landing more at-large teams in the NCAA Tournament, CBS Sports has learned.

ACC considering reducing conference basketball schedule to help boost the league's NCAA Tournament profile

The ACC may move from 20 to 18 conference games next season to play more marquee nonconference matchups

www.cbssports.com

I guess they're listening to their coaches.

"We're not the ACC of old," Wake Forest coach Steve Forbes said of his team's few Quad 1 opportunities after Thursday's ACC Tournament loss to North Carolina. "We've had a lot of change-over with coaches. Once the league play starts, it's hard to move, especially in our league this year. If you look at my schedule, we played 20 league games, and 10 of those were either Quad 3 or Quad 4 games. You just don't have as many opportunities. So how do we fix that? Well, we have to be creative."

 

[alexd]

Gee.. maybe inviting teams willy nilly from 2000 miles away doesn't make so much sense????

 

[Hurleyman216]

The problem is this only helps your resume if your crappy teams can win some games against other conferences. They’d be better off going the other direction and refusing to play any other conference so no one would know how terrible their crap conference is.

 

[pj]

The problem is this only helps your resume if your crappy teams can win some games against other conferences. They’d be better off going the other direction and refusing to play any other conference so no one would know how terrible their crap conference is.

They should copy whatever the B1G's strategy is. Maybe play a lot of Midwestern mid-majors?

 

[HooperScooper]

They should copy whatever the B1G's strategy is. Maybe play a lot of Midwestern mid-majors?

Not sure that would work since the ACC would like to win a national championship some time this century.

 

[ec33]

Gee.. maybe inviting teams willy nilly from 2000 miles away doesn't make so much sense????

You are forgetting how much Stanford and Cal adds to the prestige of the ACC as a football women's swimming conference. And depending on how the Tara replacement goes, it will solidify their position as the second best women's basketball conference ahead of the rising Big 12..

 

[JonnyRI]

Yeah, scheduling more B10 teams will help. Go 2-21 against them next year instead. Keep it up BCU!

 

[uconngb]

This is laugh out loud funny

 

[REB1094]

Translation: most of the teams in our league are so bad that we can’t risk tanking the 3 good teams’ resumes by losing to them

 

[ctbro1999]

Translation: most of the teams in our league are so bad that we can’t risk tanking the 3 good teams’ resumes by losing to them

Lol, I was gonna post just this, but you beat me to the punch.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

I’m no genius but maybe if you want prestige you should add the school with the 3rd most national championships all-time

 

[uconngb]

I’m no genius but maybe if you want prestige you should add the school with the 3rd most national championships all-time

But why do that when you can get the likes of BC, Pitt, Cuse, SMU, Cal and Stanford. those are all basketball powerhouses, no????

 

[pj]

Not sure that would work since the ACC would like to win a national championship some time this century.

Not sure about that, the ACC chose money over championships when they went with BC/Syracuse/Pitt/Louisville/SMU/Cal/Stanford over UConn for expansion. The B1G has been very effective at winning tourney bids and credits without much performance.

 

[Goldenflash]

But why do that when you can get the likes of BC, Pitt, Cuse, SMU, Cal and Stanford. those are all basketball powerhouses, no????

More importantly, football powerhouses, no?

 

[PNolanFan]

They should copy whatever the B1G's strategy is. Maybe play a lot of Midwestern mid-majors?

Eh they also lose a ton of games against mid majors... I wonder if the ACC has tried just having better teams

 

[connVA]

Pretty soon they’re going to go the route of the WCC and give the #1 and #2 teams byes directly to the tournament semis. It’s already the Duke Invitational every year anyway.

 

[BFieldHusky]

ACC trims schedule, eyes nonconference games

The Atlantic Coast Conference is reducing its 20-game men's basketball schedule to 18, allowing teams more schedule opportunities for nonconference games in an effort to boost the league's chances at NCAA tournament bids.

www.espn.com

 

[uh-no]

ACC trims schedule, eyes nonconference games

The Atlantic Coast Conference is reducing its 20-game men's basketball schedule to 18, allowing teams more schedule opportunities for nonconference games in an effort to boost the league's chances at NCAA tournament bids.

www.espn.com

I'd say the extra slots only help if the teams actually win those games, which none of them would have last year anyway....except for UNC...where losing every big game you play still grifts you into the tournament.

 

[CTBasketball]

Gee.. maybe inviting teams willy nilly from 2000 miles away doesn't make so much sense????

It does if you listen to Brett Yormack.

 

[TheShot1990]

Imagine if a school was dumb enough to take NO revenue for 10 years to join this crumbling conference? Oh wait a minute…

 

[Jaydumo20]

It's so nice to live on UConn mountain. With the barkers and the colored balloons.

 

[NH Husky]

Eventually this whole thing goes to something similar to college hockey now.
Different conferences and levels for different sports. Football. Men/women’s hoops. Hockey. Baseball. Maybe Soccer. Then Olympic sports.
Establish appropriate nil rules for each and there you go.

 

[UCan3]

Too funny. Now that the conference stinks. I laugh in their faces.

The ACC is strongly considering reducing its conference schedule so teams can schedule more marquee nonconference games and improve the league's chances of landing more at-large teams in the NCAA Tournament, CBS Sports has learned.

ACC considering reducing conference basketball schedule to help boost the league's NCAA Tournament profile

The ACC may move from 20 to 18 conference games next season to play more marquee nonconference matchups

www.cbssports.com

I guess they're listening to their coaches.

"We're not the ACC of old," Wake Forest coach Steve Forbes said of his team's few Quad 1 opportunities after Thursday's ACC Tournament loss to North Carolina. "We've had a lot of change-over with coaches. Once the league play starts, it's hard to move, especially in our league this year. If you look at my schedule, we played 20 league games, and 10 of those were either Quad 3 or Quad 4 games. You just don't have as many opportunities. So how do we fix that? Well, we have to be creative."

I remember when we were originally jilted by the ACC and they rubbed it in our faces. I thought this would be the start of a slow steady slide for the UConn Athletics, especially w/ K Ollie, Paul Pascolini+ the AAC Days of half-full stadiums on the road,

But fast forward to today where last Fall Syracuse called us their biggest Football game of the year - that was kind of their coach to say, even if it was only 1/4 true and we've been the top BB program 2 out of past 3 years. We pounded a depleted North Carolina in a bowl game which dominated a couple of news cylcles due to Belicheck's announcement. Another embarrassing loss for the ACC.

As we know they have top football schools dying to get out of the conference.

When you look at BC, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and other teams they took over us - look at how irrelevant they have become over the past 10 years. They simply don't move the needle on a national scale.


I think the new narrative and the most accurate one is....

The ACC made a huge error in not selecting UConn which led to THEIR slow and steady decline as basketball conference. BC never brought northeast market and fizzled out once they joined. It was a management error by ACC that should be studies somewhere. What was it that they missed and how did it happen?

 

[Fishy]

You know your conference is in great shape when your plan to help its image is to play fewer games.

Books will be written about how the ACC took a winning hand and somehow managed to end up dead in a dumpster.

 

[AllHusky]

You are forgetting how much Stanford and Cal adds to the prestige of the ACC as a football women's swimming conference. And depending on how the Tara replacement goes, it will solidify their position as the second best women's basketball conference ahead of the rising Big 12..

Theres that!!